All too often in conversations with clients and colleagues, I hear the terms “Lead Generation” and “Demand Generation” used interchangeably. Of course, once you start asking more questions, it becomes rather easy to delineate between which of the two they are really talking about. But the issue remains that too few of us understand the differences […]
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Today we have a guest post from Eric Taylor, who is a freelance writer from Qwaya. In this post, Eric analyzes the differences between managing your Facebook presence in pursuit of “Likes” (i.e. Facebook Likes) and generating quality content to engage the audience. As huge proponents of content marketing, we agree with his assessment. See
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Back in June of 2010, Google announced Caffeine. While this was a new way of indexing and ranking sites on a real time basis (rather than in layers as they did previously), it set the stage for several features we see live today. One of the bigger features is Google Autocomplete. What is Autocomplete? I’m glad
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Aren’t you amazed at how large of a backlog you can amass after only three workdays plus a weekend out of office? This is the situation I found myself in after SXSW Interactive 2013. During the event, I was lucky enough to sit in on several outstanding presentations. One of the most intriguing sessions I enjoyed
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You can learn a lot from marketing and social media practitioners in virtually any industry. Today’s post focuses on how to use CRM data to better cross promote your products, services, and content (a.k.a. “Social Engagement”). Although our guest author, Vincent Clarke, uses this approach for a promotional products business, the key points are useful
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Today I conducted an “SEO for WordPress” training session for the Austin SEO Meetup Group, at the Flying Saucer in Austin, TX. In preparing for this presentation, I did a lot of research to ensure I was fully up to speed on all of the latest ways to optimize your WordPress website. That was very
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Today at the South By Southwest Interactive Conference, I had the privilege of catching Tim Ferriss (author of The 4-Hour Workweek) present a session about Meta-Learning. What is that? Essentially, it is the idea of “accelerated learning for accelerated times.” We all know that the world is moving fast these days, blazingly fast in fact. This
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Today, I am excited to unveil a brand new website for Return On Now. This redesign has been in the works for some time now, and we are happy to have it live in time for this year’s South By Southwest Interactive Conference (SXSWi). The new site is improved in many ways, several of which
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Today I came across the following video while conducting some SEO research. Based on the title, you might think this holds all the secrets to Google’s algorithm. After all, it features their head of web spam, Matt Cutts. On the contrary, this is not at all a useful resource for search engine optimization. Matt Cutts:
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Social media continues to grow in use and acceptance. Meanwhile, it is becoming more complicated. Let’s look at the rationale for rolling out a social media policy within your company. Social Media Complication Brands are especially impacted by growth. Once companies expand beyond 50 or 100 employees, new problems enter the picture. For example: Social Media for
